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Well you really have a couple of choices around this mark. You have the X-rite Colormunki Photo and the Colorvision Spyder Print. Both of these do ICC profiles for printouts.

Andrew;54830 wrote:What profiling devices are best for around the £300 mark?

colourMunki will be your best shot. accurate enough but you will be doing loads of profile updates... which is good tho

Andrew;54830 wrote:What profiling devices are best for around the £300 mark?

Very few people are likely to have more than one profiling device, so that question is only ever going to get the answer "I've got this one, so I think it's the best".

I'd suspect that all the ones around £300 will produce similar results, it just comes down to how easy they are to use and you'll discover that by reading reviews. £300 is "entry level" price when it comes to printer profilers.

I use the ColorMunki myself. If money was no object, I'd buy whatever Paul's got, but the ColorMunki does a good job.

JSR;55028 wrote:Very few people are likely to have more than one profiling device, so that question is only ever going to get the answer "I've got this one, so I think it's the best".

thats true... but i done my home work before i bought it and i can compare it to higher end devices as well...
I think munki will give you perfect time playing with colors

Well I am waiting for a Colorvision Spyder 3 print to arrive. I bought it new boxed off eBay for what I consider not a lot. Once I have tried it out I will let you know. I can almost see us having to have a 3 way test soon lol.

I will have to do a bit more research then but good to get direct opinions on here. Just had a swine of a print job and struggled on a gradient. Got about 20 mugs waste and still not happy with the result.

Andrew;55042 wrote:I will have to do a bit more research then but good to get direct opinions on here. Just had a swine of a print job and struggled on a gradient. Got about 20 mugs waste and still not happy with the result.

you can not print gradient with my profile??

I've got a Spyder system, which has two devices, one for printer profiling, and one for monitor profiling. From what I remember it does more colour swatches for printer profiling than the Munki, but not quite as many as Paul's system, but not far off.

Paul;55043 wrote:you can not print gradient with my profile??

Struggling with a yellow into greenish colour. Not sure why but there is a big step in it. I would have hot a profile for this design as it was important but also urgent.

hmmm... i never seen uneven gradient with my profile yet...